| 单词 | swallow |
| 释义 | swallow 1. v. & n. --v 1. tr. cause or allow (food etc.) to pass down the throat. 2. intr. perform the muscular movement of the oesophagus required to do this. 3. tr. a accept meekly; put up with (an affront etc.). b accept credulously (an unlikely assertion etc.). 4. tr. repress; resist the expression of (a feeling etc.) (swallow one's pride). 5. tr. articulate (words etc.) indistinctly. 6. tr. (often foll. by up) engulf or absorb; exhaust; cause to disappear. --n 1. the act of swallowing. 2. an amount swallowed in one action. Phrases and idioms swallow-hole Brit. = sink-hole (see SINK n. 6). Derivatives swallowable adj. swallower n. Etymology: OE swelg (n.), swelgan (v.) f. Gmc 2. n. any of various migratory swift-flying insect-eating birds of the family Hirundinidae, esp. Hirundo rustica, with a forked tail and long pointed wings. Phrases and idioms one swallow does not make a summer a warning against a hasty inference from one instance. swallow-dive a dive with the arms outspread until close to the water. swallow-tail 1. a deeply forked tail. 2. anything resembling this shape. 3. any butterfly of the family Papilionidae with wings extended at the back to this shape. swallow-tailed having a swallow-tail. Etymology: OE swealwe f. Gmc |
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